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Australia's Federal Court yesterday ruled that an AAA rating of a complex financial product made by Standard & Poor was 'misleading', opening up the possibility of agencies being sued by investors who lost money in the financial crisis. | 13yrs

Seven out of ten legal professionals are put off a job if there is a long recruitment process, recent research has revealed. | 13yrs

The US legal sector is the largest it has been for three years, according to October's figures released by the Bureau of Labour Statistics. | 13yrs

The daughter of jailed former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has confirmed she will file an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in response to her mother's imprisonment. | 13yrs

Spain is increasingly coming into line with international arbitration laws, says David Arias | 13yrs

Property tycoon Robert Tchenguiz is set to initiate legal action against the UK's Serious Fraud Office following his arrest as part of an investigation into the collapse of Icelandic bank Kaupthing last year. | 13yrs

Cycling's governing body, Union Cycliste Internationale, has come under fire from Australian sport wear manufacturer Skins, which is seeking US$2 million in damages after claiming its brand has been damaged by the Lance Armstrong doping controversy. | 13yrs

Pennsylvania-headquartered confectionary manufacturer The Hershey Company is facing allegations relating to cocoa derived from forced child labour in West Africa. | 13yrs

Kim Dotcom -- the extravagant founder of file-sharing web site MegaUpload -- yesterday announced a new on-line storage service aimed at providing users full control over data. | 13yrs

Christopher Grierson -- the former high-flying City of London lawyer convicted of defrauding his global law firm of £1.3 million -- has been struck off the roll of solicitors by England's regulators. | 13yrs

Australian regulators are having mixed results with legal budget planning, as increased external costs and high-profile court cases bump up expenditure. | 13yrs

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has released a set of proposals that could ease the sanctions on whistleblowers who are implicated in the misconduct they are reporting. | 13yrs

Lawyers for thousands of former National Football League players embroiled in a lawsuit against the NFL are arguing that their case is about health and safety, and not a simple labour dispute. | 13yrs

An influential committee in Singapore has proposed that lawyers in the city-state should be required to fulfil a minimum of 16 hours of free legal services, as part of a scheme to provide legal aid to disadvantaged Singaporeans. | 13yrs

Whistleblowing at City banks has nearly quadrupled in the last year, but lawyers are still concerned over the protection that tipsters receive. | 13yrs

Russian entrepreneur Boris Berezovsky has seen off a $23 million fraud lawsuit after a UK judge threw out claims made by Russian airline OAO Aeroflot. | 13yrs

The lawyers are hovering as the race tightens up between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney. | 13yrs

Lawyers in Australian state New South Wales received more complaints this year than last, but the figure is still an improvement from when the Legal Services Commission (LSC) first began to take complaints in 1994. | 13yrs

Formula One racing supremo Bernie Ecclestone has brushed off a $400 million damages demand from German bank BayernLB, which claims it could have received a better price when it sold the motor sport. | 13yrs